Why arent we all tagging our kids?

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Just reading up on buying an airtag as always losing stuff & started thought process of getting one to sew into DDs coat. She is only 2 so not a privacy/ stalking type issue I dont think- just if the worst happened and she was snatched or lost I could find her easily. Why doesn't everyone just do this as standard?!

Yes! I think some people must simply enjoy being nasty. Really. I saw the professional help one. And the other one who staid to just look after children better... as if no toddler has ever slipped off!

I have a band on each of my toddlers' wrists with my phone number on. If they went missing it would most likely be them running off rather than being snatched. So I'd hope I'd get a phonecall from someone kind who found them. But an airbtag would be reassuring and so useful. It's the thing that would never happen, but 'just in case' it does.

The suggestion was called “fucked up” “weird” “creepy” and anyone who thinks this might be a good idea has been accused of lazy parenting and told they should be watching their kids properly. People who have posted about their experiences of lost children have been dismissed because it doesn’t happen (or happens so rarely that it’s not worth thinking about). Posters have warned us about tech companies tracking our movements while probably already owning a smart phone. Calling these posters insane seems pretty mild to me.

I'm surprised at the view on here that parents nowadays are too glued to their phones to supervise their children properly. According to my mother, parents were much more lax relaxed about supervision when we were little. It used to be common in shops and at big events to have lost children announced over the tannoy and parents told to collect them from a certain point as if they were coats or handbags. She lost two of us on different occasions. She says she hardly hears this nowadays because parents (despite apparently ignoring their children constantly in favour of their phones ) generally keep a much closer watch on their children.

@HeyGirlHeyBoy @00100001 I meant out of the grounds they can play outside obviously but some nursery's take children out for walks or to the park.

DH and I made a decision not to give consent for this as we feel like risk is to high personally.

I Once saw 2 pregnant nursery workers in a shop with 6 toddlers, how would they have ran in the road if 2 of the children had made a run for it? Impossible.

[quote Hmum0fthree]**@HeyGirlHeyBoy* @00100001* I meant out of the grounds they can play outside obviously but some nursery's take children out for walks or to the park.

DH and I made a decision not to give consent for this as we feel like risk is to high personally.

I Once saw 2 pregnant nursery workers in a shop with 6 toddlers, how would they have ran in the road if 2 of the children had made a run for it? Impossible. [/quote]
Wow, you're a bit paranoid

Is your child a runner?

In the minority but I would absolutely do it.

I would too. And probably will.

What 2 year old isn’t with an adult or at home all the time?? It’s a bit OTT. Our kids have enough surveillance without air tagging them.

@Butterbegood

What 2 year old isn’t with an adult or at home all the time?? It’s a bit OTT. Our kids have enough surveillance without air tagging them.

But isn't the tagging for when they're not at home and they've escaped their adult? I don't think a 2yo has a legitimate expectation of not being under surveillance at all times.

This goes to show just how much over trust people put into technology these days and how little cyber security awareness people have.

All electronic devices can be hacker or abused through pure ignorance and over confidence in end users. Once you start tagging and tracking your kids, dodgy people and groups will abuse this technology. I'd your account, phone or device ever gets compromised, hacked, targeted or lost there is a strong possibility for others to track your kids too.

When accounts are compromised good hackers will ensure they do not alert the user, they will get all the information they need and not raise suspicion, just lust like with identify theft from comprised accounts.

Claiming your account is hack proof is foolish and give bad people the upper hand. Technology is not 100% secure, don't give them a hand, good parenting and less sharing is what you need.

I meant out of the grounds they can play outside obviously but some nursery's take children out for walks or to the park.

DH and I made a decision not to give consent for this as we feel like risk is to high personally.

What a shame, DS loves their little walks to the park. Will you continue this at school? DD did a few 'welly walks' in reception where they walked to the local park to look for signs of the changing season. The ratio of kids to adults was MUCH higher than it was in nursery.

I can see how it might be useful in some circumstances. My younger brother with severe ASD was a runner/escape artist as a child & despite my parents’ best efforts had to be found by police search on a couple of occasions. If the technology had been available then, we’d probably have used it.

However, I do think it’s quite unreliable & probably would just be able to give you a general area to focus your search. My elderly neighbour was once insistent that we had taken his phone as it was showing as being in our house (his wife was very apologetic when they found it in the house the next day!). I would say use it if you want, but definitely don’t rely on it.

Actually just looked into buying one. Realised they're an apple product. Anyone know of an equivalent one that works on Android? 'Tile' apparently not as good...
Thanks.

Because it’s a paranoid, neurotic, weird thing to do.

I bought a similar product for my late mother, 89, who was living with dementia. Technology has moved on since, but I got something designed to be put in dog collars.

I am less sure about toddlers, though we did have a couple of scary episodes of losing them in crowded places.

I should clarify, my mum had a walker rather than a dog collar.

Her daughter is much more likely to get lost than abducted and therefore a tag would help.

But normal to want to keep track of your keys more than your child??

It feels like a slippery slope towards microchipping humans. I just don’t think it’s necessary.

Old thread

What an utterly naive view.

Humans are fallible, it takes just a few seconds for a child to be snatched.

If deliberately snatched, it's really likely that the kidnapper will remove all clothing to the skin and change, so that they are not trackable by anything on the child

(PS - this is quite an old thread)

I would check for tags if I wanted to kidnap them. I may well change their clothes too so they didn't match a description a parent had given to the police.children are not possessions, you are able to keep them safe without a tag.